Newcastle and Liverpool South by-elections live
9:40 - Two of the six pre-poll booths have reported in Newcastle, and Gavin Morris is now on more than 51%.
9:38 - Labor's lead...
How South Australia may have played out under proportional representation
Readers will be aware that I have long advocated for proportional representation methods to be used when electing Australia's parliaments, and I have extensively...
By-election coming up for Stafford
There will be a by-election soon for the Queensland state seat of Stafford, sadly triggered by the recent death of independent MP Jimmy Sullivan.
Sullivan...
AEC releases report into informal voting
Late on the Friday afternoon, the Australian Electoral Commission has released a long-promised report into informal voting at the 2025 federal election.
The typical process...
Measuring marginality beyond the pendulum
When Australian elections were dominated by two major parties, Labor and the Coalition, the pendulum evolved as a simple tool to lay out the...
How preferences flowed in South Australia
We have almost reached the end of the House of Assembly count for the recent South Australian state election. We know the winner in...
Landslide – new book about the 2025 federal election
Over the last ten years I've had the privilege of writing a chapter for the series of academic edited volumes analysing each federal election,...
The shape of the vote in South Australia
We now have results for most seats in the South Australian lower house, with the final distributions of preferences due this week. We also...
South Australian upper house count update
The South Australian Legislative Council has a certain simplicity that means it hasn't been the focus of much analysis.
With just eleven members elected by...
SA federal redistribution live
11:43 - That's it for today. All done within an hour. It's worth noting that if the federal parliament is expanded, this redistribution process...